National Minority Health Month Foundation Applauds McDonald's Nutrition Information Initiative
Posted on: Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 12:00 CST
WASHINGTON, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Minority Health Month Foundation (NMHMF) today released a letter praising the decision by the McDonald's Corporation to provide key nutrition information on packaging at its 33,000 restaurants worldwide.
The letter, signed by NMHMF Executive Director Dr. Gary A. Puckrein and well-known nutritionists Pat Baird, Georgia Kostas and Dr. Martin D. Fried, lauds McDonald's for its pioneering method of delivering easily-understood yet detailed nutrition facts to its millions of customers, including "bar charts showing the percent of daily value for a 2,000 calorie diet as well as the actual hard numbers of calories and amount of protein, carbohydrate, fat and salt."
The letter signers declare that "This voluntary action also deserves praise in another way. It moves the current debate about diet and health -- particularly that relating to obesity -- to a different level" and concluded that the McDonald's program fulfills the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendation that the food industry make more complete nutritional information available to the public.
As experts, the letter signers recognize that access to information is essential in allowing consumers to make better decisions regarding their food choices.
Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1998, the National Minority Health Month Foundation was established to strengthen national and local efforts to eliminate the disproportionate burden of premature death and preventable illness in racial and ethnic minorities and other special populations through the use of evidence-based, data-driven initiatives. The Foundation has developed a comprehensive relational data platform for identifying the prevalence of health-status and health-care disparities at the zip-code level. This centralized data warehouse allows the Foundation to house vital statistics; demographic, environmental, claims, prescription-drug, and clinical-laboratory values; health-care access points, and other data. The Foundation is thus able to measure and forecast health status in small geographic areas, evaluate the impact of specific interventions, monitor changes in health outcomes, and serve as a valuable resource for the health- disparities movement.
National Minority Health Month Foundation
CONTACT: Cleve Mesidor of National Minority Health Month Foundation,+1-202-223-7560, cmesidor@americanvisions.com
Web site: http://www.nmhmf.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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